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title="Job 9">◄</a> Job 10 <a href="../job/11.htm" title="Job 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“I loathe my very life;</p><p class="line2">therefore I will give free rein to my complaint</p><p class="line2">and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I say to God: Do not declare me guilty,</p><p class="line2">but tell me what charges you have against me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Does it please you to oppress me,</p><p class="line2">to spurn the work of your hands,</p><p class="line2">while you smile on the plans of the wicked?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do you have eyes of flesh?</p><p class="line2">Do you see as a mortal sees?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Are your days like those of a mortal</p><p class="line2">or your years like those of a strong man,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>that you must search out my faults</p><p class="line2">and probe after my sin—</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>though you know that I am not guilty</p><p class="line2">and that no one can rescue me from your hand?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Your hands shaped me and made me.</p><p class="line2">Will you now turn and destroy me?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Remember that you molded me like clay.</p><p class="line2">Will you now turn me to dust again?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Did you not pour me out like milk</p><p class="line2">and curdle me like cheese,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>clothe me with skin and flesh</p><p class="line2">and knit me together with bones and sinews?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You gave me life and showed me kindness,</p><p class="line2">and in your providence watched over my spirit.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“But this is what you concealed in your heart,</p><p class="line2">and I know that this was in your mind:</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If I sinned, you would be watching me</p><p class="line2">and would not let my offense go unpunished.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I am guilty—woe to me!</p><p class="line2">Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,</p><p class="line1">for I am full of shame</p><p class="line2">and drowned in <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and aware of">a</a></sup></span> my affliction.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion</p><p class="line2">and again display your awesome power against me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You bring new witnesses against me</p><p class="line2">and increase your anger toward me;</p><p class="line2">your forces come against me wave upon wave.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Why then did you bring me out of the womb?</p><p class="line2">I wish I had died before any eye saw me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If only I had never come into being,</p><p class="line2">or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Are not my few days almost over?</p><p class="line2">Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>before I go to the place of no return,</p><p class="line2">to the land of gloom and utter darkness,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>to the land of deepest night,</p><p class="line2">of utter darkness and disorder,</p><p class="line2">where even the light is like darkness.”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>and aware of</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p 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